Scarecrows

At this time of year the local gardens does a scarecrow day.
Sometime prior, I must find out when, they make a call for scarecrows to go on display and be judged in several different catagories.
By chance I heard this on the radio so decided we would have a quick visit to view the scarecrows.
What follows is a picture album of some (yes some) of the wonderful scarecrows we saw around the gardens. Some were acting as guides to the main event. The ones for voting on all had numbers.

The one Alex loved

My favorite

My 2nd favorite

The one Ben loved

Unfortunately it rained and so we wandered around with umbrellas looking at them all and voting on our paper to say which one we liked in each catagory and which one should be overal winner.

Unfortunately due to the weather, we didn't stick around for the big unvaling of who won.

This trip around the gardens made me think of harvest time. We sadly do not celebrate harvest thanksgiving here in NZ, well they may in the churches but the school don't, the other thing to consider is the fact that our harvest thanksgiving would fall about April time as summer has ended and autumn is in full bloom then.

So for today I am thankful to all the creative people out there who were prepared to create and showcase their wonderful abilities.

Like School

Blogging is a little like going to school!
You start the year all enthusiastic and excited with lots of projects in mind. You want to write everything down and learn as much as possible.
But then after several weeks you have a few ups and downs and then thankfully it is holiday time.
So you take a little break, relax and suddenly gain some more inspiration and all too soon it is term time again and you are ready to get cracking again.

Sometimes you have a very full on term, with lots happening, loads of inspiration, finding your muse around every corner you turn, but again all to soon it is break time and you are happy for a little rest.

Well that is how I see blogging, I go through a big inspiration time where I have loads of muses and have lots to write down and then suddenly I have to take a break. Doesn't mean I am not thinking about it whilst on the break, man no, in fact I have collected many pictures and things to write about, just don't have the enthusiasm to write it all down.

So then I find that I want to write them down, I start to think about how the post will write out, sometimes I even write it all down in a little notepad I have by my bed as the words form in my head at 11pm, then I don't forget all the wonderful words I thought of at such a late hour of the day.

So I think my vacation is coming to an end, my fingers are itching and my mind is processing. May be time for more posts to start flowing....!